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 Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:09 am
Make sure you watch out for this book, I am anti-recomending it.....The Two Princesses of Bamarre By Gail Carson Levine....I got 5 pages into it and stopped it was so boring, sure she wrote Ella Enchanted and that was a good book but this one was just bad....
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:56 am
If you like happy endings, avoid Whispers and Lies at all costs. That is one freaky arse book. The ending has a twist that even R.L. Stine would envy.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:33 pm
There is this book, Quiver, that I LOVED it was so funny and very new, but the ending was just plain horrible...do not read that book, unless you can stand a horrible ending. There were a few really funny conversations between Artemist and Apollo, but I really don't think it is worth it. The ending just ruins the book. (Here I go chattering again.)
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:11 pm
OK, here are some that are EXTREMELY boring, or just stink.
Shadowmancer
Robinson Crusoe
A Christmas Carol
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:12 pm
In my opinion, there's no point in reading a Christmas Carol when you've seen the movie fifty thousand times in every freaking version they can think of single gods-given Yule and performed the play in your Language Arts class. I know the movie is almost never the same as the book, but I get the basic idea, and don't really care to read the original anyway. It seems to me that all the classics are rather boring. I tried Treasure Island and couldn't get through it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:31 pm
I might get rotten tomatos thrown at me for this but......
Tuck Everlasting
The language is dull. And over exaggerated. And I couldn't get through the first page.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:58 pm
*throws an apple at you instead* I liked Tuck Everlsting, personally.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:33 am
I'm going to disagree with A Christmas Carol being added to the anti-reading list. Sure we've all seen the movie, acted in the play, etc. but there is a charm to reading the actual story (which beats the a** of any of the modern versions of the story.) The language is hard for some people to read, but I've never really had much of a trouble with it.
Tuck Everlasting- I agree with this being on the list. I tried to read it in jr. high and couldn't make it through. The story is interesting but the language in the book is dull and makes it hard to sit through. Even though I'm usually agaist saying this, skip the book and just watch the movie instead. ninja
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:38 pm
Well, I read it in 5th grade, though I can't recall the language. But if I liked it enough to read ahead of the class, I couldn't have found the language to be too bad. And besides, they messed up some of the things in the movie. For example, they made Winnie 15, when she was actually about 11. And, if I remember correctly, that really cool part in the movie when the policeman shoots the brothers and they come back to life never happened in the book.
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